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Pencils and inks from The Question: The Five Books of Blood,...
Pencils and inks from The Question: The Five Books of Blood, issue 5. Penicls by Manuel Garcia, inks by Manuel Garcis and Jimmy Palmiotti.
Eleven Dogs Patiently Wait To Be Called By Name Before Coming Forward For Dinner
Eleven very clever dogs wait very patiently to be called by name before coming forward for their dinner.
[settings rift] grim dark duckberg
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D20 modern set in grimdark duckville (ideas) :
05-18-2010, 09:09 PM
Howdy, Ive been playing d20 games (mutants and masterminds, d20 modern, and recently been dm'ing a 4E game) and i have this idea for a game.
I want to run a d20 modern (or shadowrun but ive never played that one) that takes place in a dark version of duckville from duck tales (about 10 years after the cartoon ended). The overall story is that Scrooge has control over the once prosperous city with an iron fist. The police work for him, and duckville is just a bad place to be in.
The players would be recruited by the bugle boys. There would be some side jobs here and there. One mission would go wrong and innocnets would be killed/hurt. One such character would be Fenton Crackshell. His legs get blown off and he see's his family get killed. He goes all punisher on the town and joins forces with a insanely gifted scientist named Gyro and becomes Gizmoduck.
Another thing going on would be Launchpad running a resistance. He and scrooge used to be great compainions, but he felt scrooge was crossing the line. One night, Scooge sent the silent 3 (huey, duey, and lewie) to kill him. However, he escaped just in time and went underground. The resistance is named "The Quack Pack".
The big final mission would be to steal scrooge's first dime, which is said to give scrooge all his power (its just a normal dime, but no one realizes that). They would have to infiltrate the money bin, and have to get past Donald (a lunatic who Scrooge releases on the city after the players have caused him so much problem) and Scrooge himself (both are more like the bad ass comic book versions and less like the cartoon.
So what do you all think? What can I add or do to make this game epic?
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all I can say is "I am the terror the flaps in the night". :D.
Goat Simulator's Steam support is the 'most defining and important part'
firehose'It means that we can add Steam Workshop, and let players not only make their own goat'
SOLD
Steam support for Goat Simulator, Coffee Stain Studios' upcoming goat-based game, is likely to be "the most defining and important part" of the game, designer Armin Ibrisagic wrote on Gamasutra.
In a post detailing the game's humble beginnings — as a game jam intended to spark creativity — Ibrisagic explains that the developer was unsure if Valve "would even accept such a stupid game" for Steam. After a positive response from the company, however, Coffee Stain Studios released its first Steam trailer. With Steam support, Ibrisagic continued, the developer can expand on its strange project.
"It means that we can add Steam Workshop, and let players not only make their own goat, but also their own levels, props, missions and more," Ibrisagic wrote. "People are going to make levels filled with 10,000 explosive canisters, headbutt them with a goat and make the game crash. And that will be glorious."
Goat Simulator is being released for Windows PC April 1. There are no current plans for a Linux or Mac release, though the developer will consider adding ports if they are highly requested.
Speaking on the game's release, Ibrisagic concluded that it will have at least one guaranteed outcome.
"I'd like to say the exact same thing I said when originally pitching the idea: It could turn out great, it could also turn out terrible, but in either case, it'll be really, really interesting," Ibrisagic wrote.
Response from the Capital Comic Con. Oh Boy.
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Earlier today I posted about the promo card left developed to promote the Austin based Capital Comic Con. Here’s another look at the card.
I reached out to the contact on their web site, Aaron Luevano who told me by email that he was aware of the card and approved it telling me”I asked before it was designed, many approved.”
A reader also posted about the promo card on the Facebook page for the convention and she sent me the response she got:
"I have to wonder if you’ve even been to a comic con."
So that’s it. They did it. They admit it. They think it’s funny. And when a woman calls them out on it they snidely dismiss it.
Once again that’s the Capital Comic Con of Austin, Texas.
It makes you want to go off and organize a women-oriented comic con. We could call it “Paradise Island” or “ThemysciraCon” or something like that*…
(sigh) Dingbats.
*An imperfect solution, I know. Still…
Anthony Davis is decent at basketballing
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Anthony Davis cannot legally buy a beer for two more days. For such a young guy, he is pretty good at this basketball thing.
Facebook Page “I F-ing Love Science” Is Getting A TV Series, With Craig Ferguson Producing
firehoseCraig Ferguson beat! Even if he's not in front of the camera!
Here at The Mary Sue, we fucking love science. We love smart ladies doing cool things, too. Therefore, we take it as rather exciting news that the enormously popular I Fucking Love Science Facebook page is evolving into a brand spanking new TV show. The series has been greenlit by the Science Channel, and CBS’ Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson will be taking the helm as executive producer. Elise Andrew, the one-woman team behind the Facebook page, is coming aboard as consulting producer.
Startup Employees Think They Are Going To Get Rich — Then This Happens
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'If you're a early stage startup employee, and you're working for a CEO who refuses to share such details (as liquidation preferences), be suspicious. Or maybe even go find a new job, because you're working for a jerk.'
TV Club: Doctor Who: “The Runaway Bride”/“Smith And Jones”
firehosetl;dr: Donna is the rebound one-night-stand companion
shared for "My goodness, there really is nothing quite so exquisitely joyless as an 18-year-old classic Doctor Who fan watching a new series episode."
“The Runaway Bride” (season 3, Christmas special; originally aired 12/25/2006)
(Available on Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Instant Video.)
“Roboforms are not necessary. My children may feast on Martian flesh.” “Oh, but I’m not from Mars.” “Then where?” “My home planet is far away and long since gone. But its name lives on: Gallifrey!”
The climax of “The Runaway Bride” features the Doctor using what looks suspiciously like an Xbox controller to detonate some flying Christmas baubles and flood a hole that goes all the way to the center of the Earth, thereby foiling the plans of a colossal, wisecracking spider-woman. At the risk of getting overly technical here, that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. But what’s really crazy about that scene is that, unlike so many other aspects of “The Runaway Bride,” it isn’t played for laughs. David Tennant has never looked ...
The Photos That Inspired 'True Detective'
firehose'traveling up and down the industrial plant-choked stretch of the Mississippi River' about 200 miles away from where True Detective is set
Up To 1000 NIH Investigators Dropped Out Last Year
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Google Ventures Either Pulled Or Was Bought Out Of Man's Women's Site
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Boeing's Latest 787 Headache
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This is how my cousin Allan and I found out about life and how...
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http://www.harkavagrant.com/images/miracle%20of%20life.jpg
This is how my cousin Allan and I found out about life and how it… starts
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Anonymous hackers uncover alleged proof of MtGox fraud from site’s CEO
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Following the MtGox Bitcoin exchange losing millions to a hack and filing for bankruptcy, anonymous attackers took over the personal blog and reddit account of MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles on Sunday. After seizing control, the hackers posted (Pastebin) a message to the two spaces detailing their findings and the reasoning behind the attack.
"It’s time that MTGOX got the bitcoin communities [sic] wrath instead of Bitcoin Community getting Goxed," the message reads. "This release would have been sooner, but in spirit of responsible disclosure and making sure all of ducks were in a row, it took a few days longer than would have liked to verify the data... Included in this download you will find relevant database dumps, csv exports, specialized tools, and some highlighted summaries compiled from data. Keeping in line with fucking Gox alone, no user database dumps have been included."
Forbes reports the 716 megabyte file placed on Karpeles' site included items like his home address, CV, and an Excel spreadsheet that seems to document more than a million trades. But the most interesting piece of information shared is a summary of 18 different currency balances—with 951,116 bitcoins listed. In light of the 850,000 bitcoins supposedly lost in the recent attack, the hackers concluded this figure demonstrates fraud. The footnote reads, "That fat fuck has been lying!!"
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Photograph taken from 100 year old negatives discovered in...
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Photograph taken from 100 year old negatives discovered in Antarctica of Ross Sea Party member Alexander Stevens, Shackleton’s Chief Scientist, standing on-board the Aurora.
http://www.nzaht.org/content/library/Century_old_Antarctic_images_discovered_10_Dec_2013_NZAHT.pdf
majortvjunkie: I LOVE GUACAMOLE
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Popular antidepressant Effexor recalled: What you should do
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Patients taking the antidepressant Effexor (venlafaxine) should be aware that the drug manufacturer Pfizer has issued a recall of one lot of the medications after they discovered one bottle contained a heart drug used to treat atrial fibrillation.
The medication found is Tikosyn that was discovered in one bottle of Effexor XR. The heart medication could cause abnormal heartbeat that could cause symptoms of dizziness, sweating, pallor and fainting.
Patients should check their antidepressant for lot numbers 130142 and V130140, with expiration date of October 2015. Also recalled is Effexor XR with Greenstone lot number V130014, which expires in August 2015.
The antidepressant recall includes two lots of Effexor XR® 150 Mg Extended-Release Capsules and one lot of Greenstone’s Venlafaxine HCl 150 Mg Extended-Release Capsules.
The FDA warns the interaction between the heart drug Tikosyn and venlafaxine “could be fatal”.
Hi friends - if you know anyone who might use the medication, please reblog/signal boost
anisis-scrapbook: Some variations of griffins
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A Beautiful Handcrafted Orrery, A Mechanical Model of the Solar System
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Designer Ken Condal created a beautiful handcrafted orrery, a mechanical model of the Solar System, from “brass, aluminum, acrylic, corian and exotic woods” with the help of David Clark in 2012.
The model includes representations of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn orbiting a clear orb representing the Sun thanks to a series of gears. The particulars of the project, which took Condal 10 months to complete, are broken down in meticulous detail in a series of blogs over on Condal’s website.
Ever since the fourth grade when we made solar systems with coat hangers and styrofoam balls, I’ve wanted to build a more realistic Orrery but was never able to find a design or set of plans that inspired me. Having never worked with gears, I believed that designing my own was far beyond my skill level, but that’s never stopped me before.
images via Ken Condal
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hotbritishguyspluscats: daysofstorm: I laughed so very hard at...
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I laughed so very hard at this
I just choked on my chicken pot pie.
Indecisive Corgi Is Very Suspicious of Sour Lemon Warhead Candy
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cool video let's do this with Boudin
*puts candy on ground*
*boudin eats it, walks off*
Let all your friends know: Corgi vs Warhead is the new Baby vs Lemon. Mini, the ever inquisitive Corgi seems to have just found a foreign substance of dubious and sour nature on the ground and would just like to warn everyone of that fact. Is it delicious? Or is it dangerous? Well don't ask Mini—she most definitely can't decide for the short-limbed life of her.
    
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